As A.I. capabilities accelerate, the technologist is shocked by the “complete lack of engagement” with the question of how to manage its risks.

In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

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I walked into a room where faiths united around respect, then woke to a political circus reminding me exactly how far America has fallen.

Texas and even Florida are the places to watch in November if a polling pattern holds.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the voting power of millions of Black Americans, suffered a monumental loss at the hands of the Supreme Court this month. While the decision directly affects Black a...

Connect and coordinate actions against family separation, detention, and deportation.

“A heart-pounding, mind-bending adventure.” —Ilyon WooA riveting biography of Alexander the Great’s final years, when the leader’s insatiable desire to conquer the world set him off on an exhilarating...

This Quick Start guide aims to help econ lovers easily join Bluesky’s growing economics community. The Bluesky User FAQ covers generic basics, like how to start an account. This guide orients you to e...

Some faculty members consider the decision the next step in a broader effort to gut what remains of ethnic and gender studies at the university.

The future is not what comes tomorrow, the time of the calendar. It is when our human journey breaks from the realism of capitalism and enters a structure that permits us to fully solve human dilemmas...

“Now our country is run by people who really believe in crushing the poor and killing them.”

Understand affordability with EPI’s Family Budget Calculator. It shows the income a family needs to afford basic expenses in every U.S. country and metropolitan area. Budgets estimate community-specif...

I doubt she’ll win the nomination, but she should try

He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States

"We’re setting it up to help workers organize in an economy where more and more is stacked against them."

Sunday’s vote in the state of Saxony-Anhalt could produce the strongest showing in the history of the Alternative for Germany party, and potentially a far-right government in the statehouse.

In “53 Days,” the historian Timothy W. Ryback shows how the Nazis used democratic means to destroy German democracy.

The greatest power we have is our own.

Revisiting the Work of Seymour Melman

An interview with historian Ned Blackhawk on the United States’ contested founding.

The class-based violence of the past was part of a broader struggle. Today, the violence is the end in itself.

Lesson six in my new lecture series

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

The last act of death is not mortality but the erasure of memory.

How Fossil Fuel Interests and Political Leaders Failed to Act

The top of the world is warming faster than any other region. For 20 years, the Arctic Report Card chronicled the extraordinary transformation.

A Clear & Comprehensive Overview of the Current Student Debt Landscape

Progressives are being outspent and are receiving little support from the Democratic Party. Their tactics show a different way to succeed.

Financial Struggle Can Age Your Brain: Persistent poverty can accelerate cognitive decline starting in your 50s

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Making American hungry and uninsured again

​As the consequences build, the pressure on decent politicians to act will grow.

Long before the September 30 ICE raid, Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood had been ravaged by a series of sprawling apartment building pump-and-dump schemes, aided and abetted by industrial-scale mort...

"It's a narrative designed to give the impression that Trump is in the driving seat in this conflict. It's been clear for some time now: He isn't."

Barely a third of Americans approve of Mr. Trump’s handling of the job, putting him at historic depths for a second-term president at this stage of his tenure.

We need a better way to know when it’s safe outside.

In the past year, Google Maps was deleting all the reviews for dozens of ICE jails, a new study found.

The Democratic elites are wary of the insurgency.

This machine kills fascists